international at the very heart of moscow. coming up on our t.v. investigation of the boston marathon bombings can ten years and with many questions still left up in the air especially what might have led to the suspects planning the bombings in the first place we'll take a look at the motivations in the report from boston in just a moment and playing chicken with energy policy in kansas the block drilling and fracking expansion environmentalists to come up with an interesting argument somehow the energy industry crying foul will explain in just a moment. today in d.c. there was a senate finance committee meeting on the trans-pacific partnership treaty now concerns were shared about how this treaty may affect intellectual property and even the milk you drink we'll tell you more later.

well it's wednesday april twenty fourth five human washington d c i'm margaret held in you're watching our team and we begin in boston with the latest with more than a week and a half after two explosions ripped through the boston marathon new information is coming to light about those allegedly responsible for the attacks now brothers terrilyn in joe hart also new details of the bombers ties to russia now the eldest for nine has been revealed to have been on the f.b.i.'s radar this after russia raised the red flag during tamarinds visit to the country back in two thousand and twelve as the investigation continues both countries are digging deeper into figuring out the causes for these actions artie's correspondent. is in boston with more. a terror act that shocked the u.s. the suspects a nineteen and a twenty six year old that's our naive brothers joe hart was a u.s.

citizen to milan on his way to becoming one but both of chechen origin the older brother to milan is said to have traveled to dagestan in russia for several months the trip. to russia in twenty four b. and also that it was done just on the show did not make detonators put these things together and didn't rush. nutrition despite the media rage these locations remain unknown to some a lot of people are confusing it with check with the back and say yeah whatever it's called i know i did i can't assume that the majority of americans today even speak english young at the time of the bombings that star nine have spent the last decade living in the u.s. in the country with. us you know and while the origin and yet again religion are over the largely gleaned as the root of all evil the investigation is only in its first stages somebody screwed up innocent family they then become amber alert is that was their plan there are those who knew the two brothers see the media is

taking it over the top they can't always be trying to rush to be the first ones to break a new piece of information local blogger luis vasquez knew both brothers well dzhokhar he was here since he was little and if you didn't know a hard name you would just assume that he was an american around here we have a very diverse community and it's normal to hear for someone to go back to their country he says over sensationalizing that's our knives background doesn't get any answers to the question why being answered temple and even from coaching with his brother they would never go around pounding their chest about their religion the most. conversation i've had about about their background is them telling me where they're from that's that's it and then after that all this talk about boxing let's talk about lines that's. samuel went to high school with joe hart who has now been charged with the use of weapons of mass destruction the media has a way of spinning things of course and with regards to his nationality to me it

doesn't matter. it shouldn't matter what his religion is when i graduated there were forty five languages spoken just in my graduating class alone it is not unusual in fact it is very common to hear a foreign language he reminds us that the only suspect alive after the bombings has lived in america since the age of eight having come here at the younger age you know from everyone that knows and they will tell you and they have told me on certain occasions you know this person was part of the community the attack field even more personal and devastating for samuel because he knew the brother is responsible but pointing fingers he says at places of birth or religion is far from crucial what is solving this case and bringing justice that takes time time and effort that would hopefully lead to innocent people feeling safe again security in this country seems like it's more for show than for anything a lot of times unfortunately. that needs to change while the media pick apart every single detail they can lay their hands and ears on it seems that what should matter

after the tragedy is tackling terrorism and global threats that has no feet upbringing or religion but has become the curse of the twenty first century not just here but all over the world and party boston massachusetts well earlier this year the city of los angeles went into lockdown mode while the police were in hot pursuit of a cop killer christopher dorner a former los angeles police officer went on a weeklong killing spree back in february now he was fired from the police department back in two thousand and eight and vowed to secret that he was eventually tracked to a cabin in the california mountains and died after a police shootout and a fire at the cabin where he was hiding now during the manhunt two women who were delivering newspapers early one morning were mistake. good for dorner seven l.a.p.d. officer aspired over one hundred rounds into their truck no forty seven year old margie kuranda and her mother seventy one year old emma hernandez were injured but

both survived now it's time for the police department to pay up and attorneys for the city say the women have accepted a four point two million dollars settlement the mother and daughter involved were originally promised by the los angeles police that they would get their truck replaced how thoughtful of them it's nice to see the city and the police department finally admitting their mistake now hopefully police will think twice before opening fire on innocent people again. which came first the drilling or the ag that's a question that scene may not be an issue down in kansas as natural gas continues to be the main component of the obama administration's quest for u.s. energy independence concerns over the method of extraction frack to put private corporations and environmental advocates at odds now r.t. is meghan lopez has more on how fracking may not be for the birds. it's the battle of energy versus the environment. on one side or oil

and gas companies. you know on the other activists worried about the consequences of america's thirst for fuel and now a new opponent is ruffling the feathers of the energy industry. this is the lesser prairie chicken a bird that could change the energy landscape in five states dwindling population numbers have made wildlife authorities consider adding this bird to the endangered species list so how can one small species of bird take on an entire energy industry in five states well it turns out these chickens are a little chicken when it comes to choosing a place to live they prefer to be able to see everything around them so a big oil rig like this to me rather intimidating they prefer to live in really low grasslands just high enough for them to be able to hide but still low enough for them to be able to see everything around them and that fact has the energy industry scared because putting these chickens on the endangered species list could shut

down oil rigs like this kansas is a top ten oil and gas producing state both in oil and natural gas production meet ed cross director of communication for the kansas independent oil and gas association and one of the lesser prairie chickens natural predator and i think the species and things like that could very well impact the oil production in the energy production of this nation adding the lesser prairie chicken to the endangered species list could cost the kansas economy three billion dollars in annual family income income for an industry that oil farmers describe as mom and pop shops far from the reaches of b.p. or exxon mobil or got a company called burr petroleum and what we all were drilling and exploration and production company and we keep these stripper wells in kansas running we've got five hundred sixty wells in the state and. well we have some. four hundred plus barrels of oil a couple million for gas and the oil and gas industry isn't alone if they list them

it's going to make it more difficult. for the wind energy to develop it could change where. transmission lines go through which would increase the cost for transmission lines it would also hurt the farmer since the lambs these birds nest on would be protected the range of land that the lesser prairie chickens nest on has decreased eighty four percent from its historic range so with the support of all five governors the energy industry has hatched a conservation plan to protect the chicken population all while maintaining oil and gas output and that is good news for small game expert jim pittman who has monitored the chicken population for years but even he has issues with the data and the idea of listing the animal all together the effects of those other features like gold and secondary roads when turbans for those particular features when we have fairly sparse data or or it's nonexistent altogether and that fact has the

energy industry crying foul so what is so important about these birds that they need to be protected in the five state region there are a game burn specifically of progress species that has a really unique mating strategy called the loch electing species that's right mating rituals that's what makes the lesser prairie chicken a state treasure or a game bird first of all and we represent sportsmen exactly wildlife lovers like jim pitman are fighting to save this bird because and we have particular interest in game birds and we want to make maintain those populations of game birds in sufficient numbers to to sustain the hunting season saving the birds so that they can live to die another day in wichita kansas meghan lopez r t well for many people look at energy policy in the u. yes chickens are the least of their concerns the environmental protection agency is up in arms over the state department's latest

her view of the keystone x.l. oil pipeline which would transport eight hundred thirty thousand barrels of oil to texas or fineries from the oil sands of alberta canada so our state department report from february downplayed the environmental concerns of the project saying that the pipeline would not have an impact on the greenhouse effect because the state department has the final say on keystone in the report suggests that the project would get a green light from the obama administration however the e.p.a. says that the report is just insufficient the environmental agency recommended that the state department take a closer look at the effect of greenhouse gas emissions from the extraction of the tar sands before concluding that keystone would be neutral for the environment for more on this i was joined earlier by jamie henn communications director at three fifty dot org who told me a little bit more about the e.p.a. statement you know the e.p.a. statement is a big black eye for the state department and a big blow to the keystone x.l. pipeline the e.p.a.

basically reaffirmed was environmental groups and scientists have been saying for a long time the diff pipeline is dangerous because it's guaranteed to spill over some of america's richest farmland and most important freshwater it will cause massive amounts of pollution in the refinery communities which are already bearing the brunt of the fossil fuel industry is dirty energy and third that it will have a big impact on our climate the state department's been trying to argue that it doesn't matter whether whether or not we build that pipeline that that tar sands will be developed anyways e.p.a. went back and said look that isn't true this pipeline is a critical piece of infrastructure and if it's built it will have a big negative impact on our climate and sea jamie so you mentioned water what impact could this crude have on the waterways you know how is it going to a fact this valuable asset and others as it travels down. well we've seen a little bit of that in mayflower arkansas where exxon just had a big spill and we saw even more of it a couple years ago in kalamazoo michigan when a different tarzan's pipeline spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into

the kalamazoo river the keystone x.l. pipeline would run over one of our largest sources of fresh drinking water in the united states the ogallala aquifer still there would be like a b.p. disaster on land would be absolutely devastating not only for farmers and ranchers along the pipeline route but for the entire midwest region that depends on that water and depend on that land for a lot of farming and a lot of jobs so as we've been saying all along and it's farmers and ranchers have been saying to brassica that pipeline really is just all risk and no reward so it's good to see the e.p.a. coming on board with that and it's putting some wind in the sails of pipeline upon i say so for environmentalist the e.p.a. statement if sounds like a good thing but the decision is of course still in the hands of the state department how much of this is going to have an effect on the ultimate decision ever whether they ultimately ok the project or not. well i think we'll have a fairly large effect what happens now is that the state department will be going

back to finalize its environmental review on ourselves a mental environmental review on the pipeline it then goes into what's called a national interest determination phase where it tries to look at all the different factors around this pipeline and determine whether or not they should recommend to president obama to approve it let's remember the ultimate decision is on president obama's desk he needs to take what the e.p.a. and the state department and other agencies have been telling him and ideally what the american people have been telling him and make a decision on this pipeline over the last few weeks environmental groups and the average american to send over a million comments to the state department opposing this project now it's up to president obama to choose whether or not he's going to side with big oil and with the companies pushing this dirty project or with the american people who i think it made it pretty clear that they don't want this pipeline to be built i see so jamie there's certainly been a debate in this country over whether this pipeline is going to have a positive or a negative impact on both the local economies and the national economy is it going to affect either. well i think if that's the data bill you know when we looked

actually into the numbers in terms of the jobs that would be created by this pipeline it looks about thirty five permanent jobs would be created you know that's something that would be good in some ways but the risk from the project is so much larger than that both in terms of what it could do if the pipeline ruptures like what we saw in mayflower arkansas or just what the impact of climate change that this pipeline would worsen continue to have an american economy so i think there's a pretty clear case to be made that despite the few jobs it would create we have so much more potential to move towards clean energy and create more jobs in renewable energies so kids don't agree on all the risks when it's so keystones creation you know the argument was for domestic oil prices going down could we see domestic oil prices in fact rise even with keystones creation is that a possibility. yes that's exactly right the interesting thing about keystone is it's mostly for export that's why they're so desperate to get this oil down to the

gulf of mexico so they can sell it overseas and what that will do is drive up the price of oil all along the pipeline route including in the midwest where a lot of oil is where. you're exactly right people in the midwest could actually see their gasper go up if that was built rather than go down so this argument that it's good for gas prices are good for energy security is completely bogus it's good for neither so it's keystone of really going to impact our dependence on foreign oil do you think well if anything it keeps of hooked on oil instead of really putting money towards the types of solutions that could get us off oil and really solve that problem like this oil is designed to go to the international market and the price of oil is that there will be more pipelines won't really be much too much of that goal the real way to do is to move towards clean energy amy we have to leave it there thank you that was jamie han communications director at three fifty dot org. well the senate finance committee met today to talk about the opportunities and upcoming challenges the u.s. faces when it comes to the trans-pacific partnership now the transpacific

partnership is a proposed free trade agreement that would involve nearly forty percent of the entire global economy t p p negotiations have been underway between the u.s. and ten other countries since the bush administration and the u.s. lawmakers are expressing a desire to come to a final agreement by the end of this year japan is the latest country to join the negotiating table the two senators at today's hearing expressed concerns over the country's participation in t p p particularly when it comes to the auto market senator bob casey said that the japanese auto market is nearly impenetrable for the american auto industry also that in an order the t p p to to work that aspect must change depends on market is all but closed to or automated fractures and i realize they've made some recent commitments. but i think we have to measure those

and also continue its tough questions about now another area of concern the dairy market and new zealand alleged monopolistic industry structure now experts at the hearing are concerned that the t p p agreement would cause a surge of dairy products in countries like canada and japan from new zealand so much so that the us would not be able to compete with the new new zealand state on the dairy production now senator casey went so far as to call the issue the perfect storm of dairy dairy farmers also expressed concerns over the naming of classification of food considering different country in regional standards but perhaps the greatest concern coming out of the hearing today was the need to protect american intellectual property now the president and chief executive officer of global intellectual property center for the u.s. chamber of commerce david hersman says that he strongly supports the t.t.p. but that all participating countries need to agree to data protection an ip standards. fifty five million american jobs depend on literal property they pay

thirty percent higher wages on average and most importantly for this hearing seventy four percent of our exports are tried to electoral property. however the industries that create these exports are facing challenges all around the world ip matters for two reasons one it will maximize the benefits of the group both for the u.s. and its partners but it's also important to remember that some countries are moving in the wrong direction in terms of advancing innovation and ip the mr hershman and the other panel members agree that the best way to ensure an open market is through international transparency however critics are doubtful that transparency will ever come about since the u.s. government already has kept many aspects of the taping pinochet itself secret. still ahead here on our team as nato about to face a financial collapse the nato security general has warned fellow members about the dangers of defense cuts more on that when we come back.

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a story and it seems so for link you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm charged as a big picture. well no doz top military officer say that european countries need to spend more on defense because they're free riding on american funding now officials warn that the u.s. led bloc is rapidly losing a fact of nessun unity the economic crisis has forced nato states to slash their spending by forty five billion dollars r t as tests are sale of reports on the rift

between alliance members that appears to be growing. the nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen had actually come out and warned its partners against the danger of more defense spending cuts as we've already seen especially from its european partners so this opinion was also echoed by the former u.s. defense secretary robert gates he said that if this trend does continue that the alliance could be in danger of moving into what he called a collective military irrelevance so there's the question of whether nato will actually still be relevant given the decrease in its capabilities and there are signals coming from the u.s. that they are not keen on continuing that kind of partnership with this sort of inequality and also looking at the u.s. his own budget costs as well as its shift in priority especially after we've heard that pivot to asia so they have their own concerns with their questioning the kind of reliance the kind of partnership that they have especially with european countries moving forward they're also facing some lack of enthusiasm from the

european members of just germany france are very eager to contribute to any military operation so again. the nato secretary general has come out saying that the capability of nato will be impacted and there is a question of critics on the actual relevance of the v. alliance. there's not much of. its members to contribute or to to give more into a into the alliance moving forward well that was archies test for our seal reporting . and now to an update on the story developing about journalist matthew keyes now this to say he's pled not guilty on charges of conspiring with the hackers group anonymous by granting them access to the websites of his then former employer of the tribune company in order to attack the okies dispute these allegations saying that his involvement with the group was purely for professional reasons and he acted as an embedded journalist now he's pled not guilty

a day after. dismissal from his current post as deputy social media media media editor at reuters now initially suspended the company decided to lackeys go citing reasons unrelated to the indictment among them his unofficial coverage of the boston marathon bombing now keyes was very vocal of the process posting the following on his personal tumblr saying quote we're readers also said say tweets that contained iran yes information from the wire was reckless i told the company my tweets were sorest to police and or dispatch audio when i asked the manager on call what information was and correct the manager was unable to say i offered to send the company recordings of the dispatch audio from friday morning so that they could match it with the information in my tweets the company so far has not taken me up on the offer will keep you up to speed on the latest surrounding this case as

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